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 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Welcome |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Plenary Talk 1: Impact of Climate Change on Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Warmer Autumns Reduce Cold Acclimation of Grasses in High Latitude Areas |
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Future Winter Can Affect Forest Tree Seedlings Negatively |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Cold Resistant Plants in Terms Of Climate Change |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Winter in Changing Climate: Effects of Snow Conditions on Tree Seedlings in the Boreal Forest |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Designing Cereal Breeding Programs for Extremes in Winter Weather |
| 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm | Cold Adaptation, Selective Breeding And Assisted Gene Flow in Two North American Conifers |
| 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm | Molecular Breeding for Winter-Hardiness in Perennial Forage Crops |
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | TBA |
| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | Using Crop Genetic Diversity on Farm to Reduce Crop Damage And Vulnerability to Plant Pathogens in Cold Conditions |
| 3:10 pm - 3:20 pm | Discussion |
| 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Spring Phenology, Cropping Performance And Expression of Genes Involved in Flower Development in Blackcurrant are Affected by Mild Winter Warming |
| 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm | Optimal Application of Nitrogen in Autumn for Improved Winter Survival of Nordic Golf Greens |
| 4:20 pm - 4:40 pm | TBA |
| 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm | Certified Potato Seed Production Supported by Soil Diagnostics Techniques |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Discussion |
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Social Hour/Poster Viewing |
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Plenary 2. Dr. Gerald Pollack, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington. The Fourth Phase of Water - Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Understanding Freezing in Wheat During Reproductive Growth Using Infra-Red Thermography |
| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | Visualization of Water Mobility and Freezing Behavior in Non- and Cold-Acclimated ‘Norstar’ Winter Wheat and ‘Hazlet’ Rye Crowns |
| 10:40 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | RNA Metabolism and Regulation of Plant Adaptations to Cold |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | In-Situ Biochemical Modifications and Mechanical Surface Comparisons of Epicuticular Wax of Zea Mays Following Cold Acclimation |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Monitoring of the Interaction of Temperature and Light Signals in Plant Cold Acclimation Process |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Wheat Transcriptome Response to Freeze/Thaw Events |
| 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Genome-Wide Expression Analysis During Induction of Cold Acclimation in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) |
| 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Genetic Basis of Frost Tolerance in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.): Towards Solving the “CBF-Number Game” |
| 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm | Comprehensive Analysis of the Regulatory Mirnaome During Cold Acclimation of Wheat Under Field Condition |
| 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm | Transcriptome Responses to Cold Hardening, De-Hardening and Re-Hardening and Their Interactions with Vernalization in Perennial Rye Grass (Lolium perenne L.) |
| 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Identification, Characterization and Function Analysis of New Cold Regulated Genes from Wheat |
| 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm | A Gene-Phenotype Network Based on Genetic Variability for Freezing Temperature Responses Reveals Key Physiological Processes in Sunflower Subjected to Early Sowing |
| 4:20 pm - 4:40 pm | TBA |
| 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Conference Dinner |
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| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Warfare Under the Snow |
| 9:20 am - 9:40 am | Interactions Between the Opportunistic Snow Mold Microdochium nivale and Host Plants |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Screening for Snow Mold Resistance in Pacific Northwest Wheat |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Breeding for Improved Snow Mold Resistance in Hard Red Winter Wheat at Hokkaido, Japan |
| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | QTL Analysis of Snow Mold and Cold Tolerance in Soft White Winter Wheat Cultivar ‘Eltan’ |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Breeding for Resistance to Snow Mold from a Private Industry Perspective |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Management of Bentgrass Cultivars for Activated Resistance to Microdochium nivale Under Climate Change Conditions |
| 11:20 am - 11:40 am | Reducing Vulnerability of Common Bean to Angular Leafspot Through Increased and Careful Deployment of Intraspecific Diversity in Uganda |
| 11:40 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Survival and Functioning of Arbuscular and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi After Exposure to Freezing Temperatures |
| 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm | TBA |
| 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm | TBA |
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | The Role of Xylella fastidiosa Cold Shock Proteins in Pierce’s Disease Of Grapes |
| 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm | Gene Disruption of the Snow Mold Fungus Microdochium nivale Towards Identification of a Fungal Cellulose Synthase |
| 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm | Discussion |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Conference Wrap-Up |
